 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 357 pages
...the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art And wanting nothing hut an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice...contemptible, to shun contempt ; His passion still to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847
...admire, #c.] What an able French writer observes of Alcibiades, may be justly applied to this nobleThus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt; 195 His Passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 392 pages
...and swears ; Enough, if all around him hut admire, And now the wench applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1849
...dazzling necklace, admitted that she was the luckiest person in the world ! — CHAPTER III. Tims, -with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...an honest heart; Grown all to all — from no one fault exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt; Her passion still to covet general praise, —... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - North America - 1850 - 44 pages
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings's trial, and the School for Scandal.] Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible, to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 484 pages
...whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the friar Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible, to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; Ilia life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 44 pages
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings's trial, and the School for Scandal.] Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptiblej to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it... | |
 | Edward Young, James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 516 pages
...wondering senators hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. * * % * * Thus with each gift of Nature and of Art, And wanting nothing...contemptible, to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : ***** He dies, sad outcast of each church... | |
 | English poetry - 1852
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus ent X * general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings's trial, and the School for Scandal.] Tims with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which. no friend has made... | |
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Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways... 
